curricle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of curricle
1675–85; < Latin curriculum; see curriculum
Example Sentences
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See to it that my mare is saddled in ten minutes and Blue Devil harnessed to your master's curricle!
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
At last, a curricle, glittering with silver, rattled round the corner and stopped opposite him.
From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Paul M. (Paul Martin) Pearson
"With all my heart," replied Menyhert, glad to change the subject, and speculating on the handsome curricle and four which Uncle Gabor would give his daughter on her marriage.
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai
He spares himself no indulgence, hires his hunter and follows the hounds, or drives about the country in a curricle and pair, and seems to be rolling in wealth.
From The Haunted Room A Tale by A. L. O. E.
Mr. Knightly rides from Brunswick Square to Hartfield, by a road that Miss Austen herself must have travelled in the curricle with her brother, driving to London on a summer's day.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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